films &mdash; stetted https://stetting.writeas.com/tag:films micro reviews of queer specfic & nonfiction. diversions into out-of-print annals. occasional digressions. Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:34:35 +0000 https://i.snap.as/PUqiSCLT.png films &mdash; stetted https://stetting.writeas.com/tag:films trans movie alert https://stetting.writeas.com/trans-movie-alert?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[just watched please baby please (2022), a film about an ostensibly heterosexual pair of newlyweds who get tangled up with the leader of a gang of leather daddies. the husband wants him, the wife wants to be him. cue! well, you can guess. also, it's a musical. it's set in the 1950s and has been generally described as if West Side Story were a campy, deranged parody about BDSM / leather culture. the good: leather daddy musical. aesthetically / texturally a blast. delightfully horny. the bad: it was trying to say a lot about gender. like, so much. too much. weirdly coy about queer sex despite being wildly horny. the so what: you won't see anything quite like this elsewhere #films #y2022 supsubem I'm a data journalist and media educator based in the Pacific Northwest. Follow what I'm reading live on a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/readmeup"Storygraph/a. You can subscribe to this blog a href="https://write.as/stetting/subscribe-now"via email/a or via the Fediverse @stetting@write.as. Find me at @petrinkae on a href="twitter.com/petrinkae"Twitter/a or a href="https://tech.lgbt/web/@petrinkae"on Mastodon/a. /em/sub/sup]]> just watched please baby please (2022), a film about an ostensibly heterosexual pair of newlyweds who get tangled up with the leader of a gang of leather daddies. the husband wants him, the wife wants to be him. cue! well, you can guess. also, it's a musical. it's set in the 1950s and has been generally described as if West Side Story were a campy, deranged parody about BDSM / leather culture.

the good: leather daddy musical. aesthetically / texturally a blast. delightfully horny.

the bad: it was trying to say a lot about gender. like, so much. too much. weirdly coy about queer sex despite being wildly horny.

the so what: you won't see anything quite like this elsewhere

#films #y2022

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